Caging the Intellectual Bird

“The binary world has given
radiant wings to knowledge
and information. Those who
support the infringement of
cyber freedom cage the
intellectual bird.”

••••••» Felicia Lujan
••••••» 4.30.2013

Archivists Make the New York Times

Reblogged from The Cambridge Room:

"Archiving in the Digital Era," a video from the New York Times, published April 29, 2013.

Today's New York Times had a nice article and short video on archivists working in New York City, titled "Leaving Cloister of Dusty Offices, Young Archivists Meet Like Minds."  The article focuses on the social aspect of NYC archivists and the video features archivists' excitement around and challenge with the digital era. 

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This is great! Felicia

Reblogged from LIFE AND LOVE:

http://www.ted.com/talks/benoit_mandelbrot_fractals_the_art_of_roughness.html

Blu is awesome! She is right! Great minds think alike! ;) ~Felish

In Protest: Going Dark on April 22, 2013

******UPDATE*****4.30.2013
Unfortunately, the representative for New Mexico’s 3rd congressional district had a change of heart over the last year.
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My web site will blackout tomorrow in protest of the
Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).
You should do the same.
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Anonymous Calls For Internet
Blackout On April 22 To Protest CISPA

The Huffington Post | By Alexis Kleinman

The link for FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 192 has been deleted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_nFyavcld4

Whisked Away

A rush of air
from Heaven’s
gate waiting
to break free.
Whisked away
like a wish on
wind, the same
I’ll never be.

~~~» Felicia Lujan
~~~» 4.17.2013

Among the Gifted

I was very honored to be asked to develop a design to promote the 2013 Tony Hillerman Writers Conference. This is my second promotional design for WORDHARVEST. The first one I designed was for the Hillerman Prize. Over the last week, I worked to complete a flyer for Anne Hillerman and Jean Schaumberg.

Anne and Jean founded WORDHARVEST 11 years ago, which is “devoted to the art and craft of writing.” WORDHARVEST sponsors the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference. I can’t wait to continue learning from these well known authors, and maybe one famous scriptwriter that I have never met. Anne and Jean have put together a fabulous array of gifted writers. This year, the conference will feature Anne Hillerman, James McGrath Morris, Kirk Ellis, Craig Johnson, David Morrell, Margaret Coel, Christine Barber, Linda Jacobs, Steve Havill, and many others!!

It would be awesome to talk with James McGrath Morris. He is the author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power. As a former journalist, I have to read that book and get a special autograph from McGrath Morris. Joseph Pulitzer was a “media baron” who settled in St. Louis. The baron “transformed American journalism into a medium of mass consumption and immense influence.” How can I not read a book about the rise (and arguably the fall) of a champion of the Democratic Party? The media powerhouse is said to have “used his influence to advance a progressive political agenda and his power to fight those who opposed him.”

I would also love to meet the Emmy award winning screenwriter/producer Kirk Ellis. Ellis was the writer and the co~executive producer of John Adams (the HBO mini~series). He is also working on Blood and Thunder, which is an epic drama about Kit Carson and the Navajo Wars. In 2009, Ellis agreed to work on the adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway book Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir by A. E. Hotchner. You know I have to meet him right?! I adore Hemingway. Ellis also worked on the TV mini~series Into the West: Hell on Wheels and Anne Frank: The Whole Story.

I really can’t wait! Here is the design I came up with for the conference. It is sure to be a great!

~Designed by Felicia Lujan~

Why We Drink

AhhhHaaa~
I finally know why we drink!
Check out the new web site co-authored by
Sahm King (The Arkside of Thought)
and Papizilla (The Ranting Papizilla).
we drink because we’re poets is sure
to be a great digital collective!
King and Papi started up this project
just in time for National Poetry Month.
Thank you for crowing me
“one of the best” poets on WordPress!
I do appreciate the root of and my return
to creativity. I have given thanks!

~~~Felicia

Anticipation of Lyrical Candy

I have been waiting since 2012 for the release of Native, the third studio album of OneRepublic. Ryan Tedder is such an awesome songwriter. He is also the lead singer and a producer with skills. The new album was officially released last week in Germany. It is finally scheduled for release here in the US tomorrow! I can’t wait to hear the acoustic versions of a few songs. I have heard Feel Again and snippets of Counting Stars, What You Wanted, If I Lose Myself, and Burning Bridges. Love-love-love them all! Tedder and the other writers seem to pluck some of the lyrics right out of my mind!! What the?? I can’t wait to hear the full album. If you support these boys– trust me– you will not be disappointed.

Monsters

My new web site theme features the infamous 1781 oil painting by Henry Fuseli titled “The Nightmare.” The painting was first displayed at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, but it is now housed with the Detroit Institute of Arts. This painting may be one of my favorite works of symbolic art. Many scholars of the mind believe that the “monster” is in fact the woman’s unconscious. I think it can represent the power of our dreams, addiction, being powerless, or that which haunts or enchants us. It can mean many things depending on who interprets the piece, and maybe even their mood. The picture has been hanging in my office for many years. Fuseli was indeed ingenious with regard to symbolic imagery.

Bound to Burn by Felicia Lujan

So here is a moving image of my newest art piece. It is a highly symbolic colored pencil drawing. I was happy with the end result. When I showed it to my boss, she said I should contemplate becoming a part of Spanish Market here in Santa Fe, New Mexico. That would be as a contemporary artist of course. I’m thinking about it. Maybe it would be a good move for me? Let me know what you think about the piece and/or if you are deep, what you think it means? I would be curious?

~~~~~~~Felicia

Unpredictable

•Friday Night Storm Clouds•
………………………………….by Felicia Lujan

What is it about the weather? It’s so unpredictable. Elements are cutting. Illusions of summer entertain a frigid antagonist. I shiver. I sink and wait for a reluctant warmth. What is it about the weather in New Mexico? Clouds go and come just to bring the rain. I shimmer. I float and wait for the winds of change. What is it about the weather? It is always unpredictable. Elements are piercing. The illusion of a ray of light is quickly swept away with storms.

by Felicia Lujan
3.8.2013

The Glitch

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Faux pas of the lovely
kind~ a human glitch is
not so hard to take.
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The defect rests in a
mirage~ so I’ll just
remember I will wake.
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Malfunctioning~ the
twilight burns as sparks
fly off the cuff.
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Ailing is she~ strength
must grow~ weakness
never was enough.
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Each kink and knot
bears tenderness. The
glitch doesn’t need a fix.
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If there are mistakes
in fate there was no
need for paths to mix.
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Imperfection~ stop and
love the flaws because
they make me real.
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A glitch, a fault, the
missing code~ this is
the reason I can feel.
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by Felicia Lujan
3.7.2013

Collection of Links: Resources for Libraries

Reblogged from The Modern MLIS:

Apps
Free Software for Libraries Ideas Exchange - iLibrarian
50 Great Mobile Apps for Librarians - Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian's Weblog

Technology
Internet Librarian: Speed Technology Dating - Librarian in Black (30 technology recommendations - from Raspberry Pi to Liquid Space)
How to Create Your Own Knowledge Base - iLibrarian
Library Now! Google now technology applied to libraries? - Musings about Librarianship…

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An Interesting Look at Interests

I finally got my “Voyager Category Cloud” or tag cloud up on this site. I must say that I am intrigued to see my interests weighted in print like this. Given my obsession with music, pop culture, and the gym, my metadata cloud is rather curious? It is kind of good to think that since I started this site in 2011, I have devoted most of my posts to the intricacies which pin down my mind. Of close to 700 posts, my cloud proves that many of them were filed under Edification, History, New Mexico, Symbols and Imagery, and/or Writers and Writing. What an interesting look at my interests~ and hopefully yours!

~Rebirth~

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Reconstruct
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Recover
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Set in motion
an overdue
rebirth of
epochal hunger.
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Push through
silky, shallow
walls embellished
by my dreams.
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Emerge
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Whole
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A taste of
fullness for
the wearisome.
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by Felicia Lujan
2.27.2013